#5

2. Think about girl from a linguistic model: analyze the language used, keeping in mind that the narrator is a female, echoing her mother’s advice. What does it mean for a woman to speak to another woman in this tone, with these words?

  The language used in Girl is a very demanding and informative tone. The mother is very straight forward and is telling her daughter how to behave and do things a woman should do them. The language the mother uses is very degrading it seems like when she reminds her daughter to not become this slut she has warned her about. The way she talks to her daughter is in a way that she already knows she is going to become a slut. The fact that this woman (the mother) is talking to her daughter like this can be seen as a lecture of advice for this young girl so she knows how to face daily chores and encounters, also the tone used could mean that sheis showing her how to act in the culture and time in order to not be seen as a weak woman. She wants her daughter to be strong and independent, but not one who is getting unwanted attention from men, "This is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and so to prevent yourself from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming." Women are very honest, and as a mother her language is very straight forward and instructive. Her repetetive words about her daighter being this slut is evident that this is the way she views her daughter and i think she is trying to give her as much instruction as possible because she has already lost some hope for her becuase she knows she will become this slut.